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Shirley's strength came back slowly. For six weeks the trained nurse stayed, ordering expensive things for her patients. Anxiously David saw his scanty resources dwindling fast. One by one his old commissions were paid and disappeared down the hopper of household expenses. He took to thinking of what would happen when the commissions were all paid, and to haunting Fisher's office.
It is too long to quote here in full, but I will give a few stanzas: Sc. good-bye. Cf. Shirley's Constant Maid, i. 1, "Buoy, Close, buoy, honest Close: we are blanks, blanks." Can the reference be to Troilus and Cressida? Ben Jonson's Alchemist. Cf. Shirley's Honoria and Mammon, i. 2: "Go to your Lindabrides I'the new brothel; she's a handsome leveret."
It's something we want you to shout from the house tops." Bob gave a bound to the seat of an old chair and flapping his arms up and down wildly he crowed, "Cock-a-doodle-doo! Don't know what I'm crowing about, but I'm crowing!" "And that's what we want you to do. The Merriweather Girls are starting in business!" announced Kit. "You don't say so!" "It's to be known as Shirley's Shop!"
"Ned, remember when far from home, that there is another home eternal in the heavens to which, if you be the Lord's child, you are hastening. You will think of that home, Ned, won't you! If I do not meet you again here at any rate I shall hope to meet you there." Ned would have spoken, but his heart was too full. He merely pressed old Mr Shirley's arm.
Holds a garden patch and homestead only, where once the Cloverdale Ranch smiled. All under mortgage also to other capitalists. Boys, I'd be ready to give up if it wasn't for my little girl. What's the use in a man as big as I am, with no lung power, keeping at it?" There was a sad hopelessness in Shirley's tone. "No, no!" the men chorused in one voice. "Go on, Jim, go on!" "Asher Aydelot."
But it was Shirley's first duty, on arriving every morning, to get the keys at the house door, and to let himself into the bank by the adjoining private entrance. It was Patten's duty, on arrival, to take the letter-bag to the post-office and bring the bank's correspondence back in it.
"That has got nothing to do with it," replied Jefferson warmly. He resented Shirley's name being dragged into the discussion. Then more calmly he went on: "Now, mother, be reasonable, listen. I purpose to live my own life. I have already shown my father that I will not be dictated to, and that I can earn my own living. He has no right to force this marriage on me.
At first I thought that all such evidence would be unnecessary now, after the dialogue I had overheard, but it struck me as an afterthought that it might be necessary still to prove Shirley's guilt to the satisfaction of a court and jury, and so I rushed to the next dressing room and to another, until I located the doctor and the body of the dead man.
He would have been a part of the orderly crowd of men that went out to the old farm to destroy the offending distillery. Shirley Wells started the clean-up here, and it spread to all affected localities. This is the story." Then Fred Townsend told the story, to include the history of the Wells bank, of Shirley's army service, of Carson's banking relations with the Chicago mobsters.
State of Facts relating to the Loss of Oswego, in London Magazine for 1757, p. 14. Correspondence of Shirley. Correspondence of Loudon. Littlehales to Loudon, 30 Aug. 1756. Hardy to Lords of Trade, 5 Sept. 1756. Conduct of Major-General Shirley briefly stated. Declaration of some Soldiers of Shirley's Regiment, in N.Y. Col. Docs., VII. 126.
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